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He was the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg of French agnatic descent. Jean was the eldest son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix. Jean's primary education was initially in Luxembourg, before attending Ampleforth College in England. In 1938, he was officially named Hereditary Grand Duke as heir-apparent to the throne of Luxembourg.
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna and given to the new King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in exchange for his ancestral Principality of Orange-Nassau, which went to Prussia; as a result, the first Grand Dukes of Luxembourg were Dutch kings also, and their heirs were eligible for both thrones.
later, Grand Duke Henri: 16 April 1955 Eldest son of Jean: Hereditary Grand Duke from 1964 Grand Duke from 2000 Married María Teresa Mestre y Batista in 1981 Jean Félix Marie Guillaume: 15 May 1957 Second son of Jean: Married, firstly, Hélène Vestur in 1987, divorced in 2004, secondly, Diane de Guerre in 2009 Guillaume Marie Louis Christian ...
Luxembourg's Grand Duke Jean, who oversaw the transformation of the Grand Duchy into an international financial center before abdicating and handing over to his son, has died at the age of 98.
Guillaume is the Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, the Grand Duke's eldest son, born on 11 November 1981. He was married on 20 October 2012 to Countess Stephanie of Lannoy , now Hereditary Grand Duchess Stephanie of Luxembourg, who was born on 18 February 1984.
Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg is kickstarting the abdication process for his son, Prince Guillaume, to reign one day. On Oct. 8, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 69, and his eldest son and successor ...
Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1921–2019 r.1964–2000: Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium 1927–2005: Fabiola de Mora y Aragón 1928–2014: Baudouin King of the Belgians 1930–1993 r.1951–1993: Albert II King of the Belgians b. 1934 r.1993–2013: Paola Ruffo di Calabria b. 1937: Alexander of Belgium 1942–2009: Léa Wolman b. 1951: Marie ...
Prince Guillaume (M), Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, waves from the balcony of the Chamber of Deputies alongside Luc Frieden (L), Prime Minister of Luxembourg and Jean-Claude Wiseler ...